Genesis 2:1–17

The Seventh Day, God Rests

2Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and ^wall the host of them. ²And ^xon the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. ³So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

The Creation of Man and Woman

^4yThese are the generations

of the heavens and the earth when they were created,

in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

⁵When no ^zbush of the field¹ was yet in the land² and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man ^ato work the ground, ⁶and a mist³ was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— ⁷then the Lord God formed the man of ^bdust from the ground and ^cbreathed into his ^dnostrils the breath of life, and ^ethe man became a living creature. ⁸And the Lord God planted a ^fgarden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. ⁹And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. ^gThe tree of life was in the midst of the garden, ^hand the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. ¹¹The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of ⁱHavilah, where there is gold. ¹²And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. ¹³The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. ¹⁴And the name of the third river is the ^jTigris, which flows east of Assyria.⁴ And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

¹⁵The Lord God took the man ^kand put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. ¹⁶And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, ¹⁷but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ^lyou shall not eat, for in the day that you eat⁵ of it you ^mshall surely die.”